Issue type | Date | Event summary | BAR scale | |
Hydropower | 1995/2/24 | China’s Yunnan Province welcomes foreign investors to develop a large-scale hydropower plants & is poised to consider cooperation with Thailand in construction of dams. | 1 | |
Joint management | 1994/11/25 | Four countries have cleared the last hurdle to use the mainstream Mekong River during the dry season, which held up agreement for 3 years, & will initial an historic agreement on managing the river. The countries have been negotiating a framework for water use in the Mekong for purposes such as irrigation, hydropower, navigation, flood control, fisheries, transportation of timber & tourism. | 3 | |
Technical cooperation/ assistance | 1993/7/27 | In late July, Khondahak, chief of the Houai Sai District, Bokeo Province (Laos) and Zhong, chief of La District, Yunnan Province, People’s Republic of China, signed a cooperation memorandum for surveying a small hydroelectric generation project in Houai Sai District. | 4 | |
Joint management | 1991/1/1 | Cambodia requests reactivation of Mekong Committee. | 2 | |
Navigation | 1990/6/18 | China and Laos completed their first joint survey of the Mekong River to determine the possibility of opening the waterway to more trade. | 3 | |
Water quantity | 1980/2/4 | A memorandum of irrigation cooperation between the delegations of the Laos Agriculture, Forestry, and Irrigation Ministry and the Vietnamese Water Conservancy Ministry was signed in Vietiane. | 4 | |
Economic development | 1975/1/31 | Joint declaration of principles for utilization of the waters of the Lower Mekong Basin, signed by Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam | 4 |